Slides

I posted my slides and code for each of my talks.

Features: Let’s Explore:

http://rebcreative.com/node/111

and CCK Configuration in Code

http://rebcreative.com/node/112

The recently released Gigya Socialize module for Drupal brings new convenience to connecting Drupal sites to social media sites like Twitter and Facebook. This session will explore using this new module as well as dedicated modules for connecting Drupal sites to other social media sites.

We’ll cover examples including:

• Integration of social media into existing Drupal sites.
• Using social media sites to increase awareness of your Drupal site
• Incorporating data from social media sites into your Drupal site.

An overview of the most important changes that have been introduced to Drupal 7 regarding the use of JavaScript in modules and themes.

If you’ve ever written custom code or modules for Drupal and wondered to yourself “am I going to regret this later?” Have you ever uploaded a development version of a module to a live site, hoping that your site was small enough that no hacker would bother trying to find it’s security flaws?

Give your conscience a break! Securing your own Drupal code, or assessing the exploit-ability of other modules isn’t rocket science, and you can actually reap some huge benefits employing just a handful of Drupal functions.

Panels made my life so much easier but Panels 3 is different.

Again.

Building something with Panels and then hacking away at the theme layer to make it look pretty will be the focus of this presentation.

Thanks for all the kind words and the great support from Jen, Andy, and …

Several of you asked me to post the link to the site that I used for the presentation. http://panels.anguspratt.com .

Have you been working with Drupal for a while, realizing that it’s an open source project and you’d like to give back, but you don’t know how? Consider contributing by improving the documentation of Drupal — anyone, regardless of experience level, can help make Drupal documentation better — even if you can’t write well or aren’t an expert on all things Drupal.

This session will cover: – Ways to contribute to Drupal (time and finances) – What kinds of documentation exist for Drupal (API and Handbook) – How to navigate and search Drupal documentation

If some Development Seed folks don’t make it, I want to explore Features.

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Slides are available at:

http://rebcreative.com/node/111

This session will provide a fast and furious dive into the Drupal 6 Form API (FAPI). Topics covered include:

— Form definition & built-in field types
— Custom Validation and submission handlers
— Modifying existing forms with hook_form_alter
— Form redirection
— Form and element theming
— Multi-step forms (storage & rebuild)
— Helper modules

Extensive code samples will be provided.

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Komodo Edit is a powerful text editor with a lot of amazing but hidden features. As well, Komodo Edit and it’s big brother Komodo IDE are based on the same technology as Firefox, making it easier to extend using familiar technologies such as JavaScript, XML and Python.

Isn’t it nice how you can export views and store them in code? It makes me feel good on the inside when I know my views are safely stored in SVN. The same is true for Panels.

CCK provides import and export functionality, but it’s not as well understood or documented about how to store CCK types in code.

Let’s explore the possibilities together. There will be code and refreshments.

Slides and Code Available at:
http://rebcreative.com/node/112